Miracle mum: ‘Vampire’ cancer treatment saved my life after I was given months to live

LUCKY: Gail is now cancer free after the controversial GcMAF treatment

Gail Harling was told there was nothing doctors could do after her ovarian cancer spread to her pelvis, stomach and lungs.

But the gran-of-seven turned to a controversial treatment in which she injected herself with human blood each day.

It is claimed the procedure – known as GcMAF – helps to boost the immune system.

However it is banned in the UK and critics claim there is no scientific evidence to support it.

But six years later Gail, whose tumour shrunk so much it was removed earlier this year, is now cancer free.

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TROUBLES: Gail, 60, was first diagnosed with cancer aged 49

Gail said: “I was told I probably had three months to live, two years if I was very lucky, after the cancer returned for a third time.

“I was going to die so had nothing to lose”

Gail Harling

“They sent me home with an appointment with a Macmillan nurse and a manual about what was going to happen to me. I thought, ‘No way, that is not happening to me, I am not going to die, I love life’. I heard about GcMAF from a friend and thought I would try it as I had nothing to lose.”

Gardener Gail, 60, was first diagnosed with cancer aged 49 and had an operation to remove her womb.

But four years later scans revealed the disease had returned.

Several rounds of chemotherapy had little effect and Gail was told there was nothing doctors could do.

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DANGER: The treatment is banned in the UK due to lack of scientific evidence to support it

It was then she heard about the “vampire” treatment and, in desperation, she started spending £400 a month on it.

Gail said within months of starting the tumours began to reduce.

She continued to go to hospital for scans and says doctors were confounded by the cancer’s retreat.

Gail said: “My daughters said don’t do it but I said yes. I was going to die so had nothing to lose.

“The effect was very quick and within three months my tumour had shrunk to almost half its size and the metastasis in my lungs and stomach started to shrink.”

Gail, from north London, also modified her diet, cutting out sugar and carbohydrates, and took vitamin D every day.

Her tumour shrank so much that she was able to have it removed last year and was deemed cancer free after a scan this year.

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MIRACLE: Gail said within months of starting the tumours began to reduce

Last year the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), a medicines watchdog, issued a warning about the “cure”, saying: “Buying medicines online is a risk, many websites operate outside the legal requirements and you have no idea what you are getting.”

But Gail added: “I know there has been a lot of negative publicity about this but it has worked for me.”